CG Compositing Series – 1.1 What And Why
This is the first video in the CG Compositing Series
I will cover What CG compositing hopes to accomplish, and Why we need passes to help us manipulate our CG
00:00 – intro
00:35 – What is a CG multi-pass Render?
00:50 – Why do we need it?
02:25 – Intro to Fruitbowl and practical use of passes
04:07 – Terms and Definitions
04:58 – Nuke Script SourceImages
05:40 – Stamps
07:35 – Different types of Renderers
10:16 – Default Renderers and 3rd Party
11:32 – Most Common Renderers in 2021
12:45 – Renderers Used in this Series
13:32 – Inspiration and Credits
15:40 – Intro to CG assets in script
17:30 – Ways to View Render Passes
28:45 – Layers vs Channels
40:09 – AOVs
42:11 – Difference Between Renderers
43:39 – Basic AOV rebuilds
46:54 – Basic Rebuld Equations per Renderer
47:48 – Outro
Please visit the blog post for the full write up, sources and downloads accompanying each video.
https://compositingmentor.com/2021/11…
Or Head to my Compositing Blog for more posts and videos:
https://compositingmentor.com
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Download the FruitBowl Renders for the Series
My Friend and fellow artist, Chase Bickel, has kindly provided us with some high quality renders of a FruitBowl to download for free and play around with.
Download the FruitBowl renders now, or I will always post the links at the top of each video and blog post for you to download later:
You can Choose to either download all 3 FruitBowls at once:
FruitBowl_All_Renders_Redshift_Arnold_Octane.zip (1.61 GB)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yism…
Or Each FruitBowl Render Individually for faster downloads:
FruitBowl_Redshift_Render.zip (569.1 MB)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a49k…
FruitBowl_Arnold_Render.zip (562.8 MB)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dLbJ…
FruitBowl_Octane_Render.zip (515.4 MB)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J62X…
You can place the FruitBowl renders files into the /SourceImages/ folder of the project files folder accompanying each video and nuke will reconnect the read nodes.
Head to the blog post for more details.
Please remember, Basics — Advanced — Template, the series will dive into some very deep topics, so it’s good to cover these fundamentals